Word: marchie
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...know John Marchi, and he is somebody. John Lindsay is somebody else. And Procaccino is something else...
...describe Senator John Marchi as a political nobody. Doesn't TIME know that in 1969 nobody is a nobody? Would you describe someone as a black nobody, or a Vietnamese nobody, or a Pentagon nobody? How about a journalistic nobody...
...most liberal city in the country, New York, proved susceptible to the chant. Mayor John Lindsay, a progressive who only four years ago was one of the most attractive figures in the Republican Party, lost his party's primary last week to a political nobody, State Senator John Marchi. On the Democratic side, Robert Wagner, Lindsay's predecessor for twelve years, lost to City Comptroller Mario Procaccino, an emotional performer whose politics are not merely old but primordial. Though neither could be called racist or bigot, the victors had based their campaigns on one theme: public apprehension over...
...books published about Charles de Gaulle, the most engrossing may well be a little biography for children, complete with charming drawings and simple text. Yet the unknown author, writing under the pseudonym Xavier Arito-marchi, laces his pabulum with Tabasco. "La France est a moi," says young Charles as he plays soldiers, grabbing the French poilus for himself, while forcing his brothers to take the Ger man and English sides. There is another happy scene of Charles playing pyramid-standing on a shield held by his playmates. And on and on. The caption, beside a picture of De Gaulle nestled...